1. Cameron’s downgrading of environment policy bodes ill for the future
The PM has not made a keynote speech on the environment in two years, notes Will Straw at Left Foot Forward.
2. A pair of tycoons has put Salmond on uncertain ground
The Scottish First Minister is paying the price for cosying up to both Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump, says Hamish MacDonnell at Coffee House.
3. George Galloway's Muslim conversion: why the big secret?
Galloway's adopted religion, surely, is not a shameful secret, writes the Telegraph's Tom Chivers.
The London mayoral polling may not reflect what is happening on the ground, says Labour Lists's Mark Ferguson.
5. Chicken! Did Danny Alexander refuse to debate Ed Balls on Newsnight?
If you can’t stand the heat then get back to the Cairngorms National Park press office, Political Scrapbook tells Danny Alexander.